At a glance
| Booth | S7836 |
| Country | JP |
| Website | www.shokubai.co.jp/ja |
Company profile
NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co., Ltd. is a chemical manufacturer operating globally and providing materials and solutions across fields that include consumer products, information networks, next-generation energy, nucleic-acid pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and other life-science applications. The company provides functional polymer materials including EPOCROS functional polymer products that support VOC countermeasures and conversion from solvent-based to water-based systems. Its core capabilities include inorganic catalysts, organic synthesis, and polymer technology, and it has used gas-phase oxidation reactions to stably produce basic chemicals such as acrylic acid and ethylene oxide. NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co., Ltd. also identifies mass-production technology for superabsorbent polymers as a capability, building on the development of water-absorbing materials that are now used in disposable diapers around the world. Its IONEL® lithium-ion battery electrolyte is produced by a proprietary process and is described as improving battery life, input-output performance, and storage stability; the company also states that it established a world-first mass-production technology and obtained numerous patent rights. The functional polymer product エポクロス® was commercialized using accumulated organic-synthesis and polymer technologies and is positioned for VOC response and water-based formulation through solvent reduction. To accelerate development and scale-up, the company promotes DX and Materials Informatics, including systems for accumulating experimental data and IoT-enabled laboratories that collect data efficiently for faster R&D. Its environmental activities include using biomass feedstocks and green energy, providing materials and solutions that can reduce CO2 emissions, reducing waste and chemical-substance emissions, and seeking to minimize negative effects on ecosystems. The group’s long-term vision, TechnoAmenity for the future, sets a 2030 direction around three transformations: business transformation, transformation for environmental response, and organizational transformation. The company traces the origin of its superabsorbent resin to an attempt to create a water-soluble compound that instead absorbed water and expanded, a discovery that became the starting point for the material now used in diapers worldwide. Its customer-development approach is described as repeated dialogue around customer challenges, including improving product performance and quality and helping commercialize ideas that had been difficult to realize. From its founding to the present, the company states that it has achieved multiple Japan-first and world-first developments while supporting the evolution of a range of products. NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co., Ltd. states the principle “Safety takes precedence over production” and describes workplace initiatives around diversity and inclusion, flexible work styles, and systems that encourage employees to take on challenges. Its 2030 direction also calls for providing materials and solutions needed by people and society, continuing to evolve as social conditions change, and growing together with internal and external stakeholders.
Exhibits
SEAHOSTARTM KE consists of spherical fine silica particles with an average particle diameter controlled in the 0.1 – 2.5 μm range and a sharp particle-size distribution. The SEAHOSTARTM KE particles are described as fine, with a narrow distribution, and as existing primarily as primary particles with few secondary aggregates. Applications listed for SEAHOSTARTM KE include use as fillers for encapsulating compounds, underfills, insulation films, prepreg, and related formulations. SOFMATERTM is a material for cleaning, etching, and polishing across semiconductor wet processes. NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co., Ltd. also offers a portfolio of polymer solutions for semiconductor wet processes and can customize products to specific customer requirements. These exhibit materials connect the company’s polymer and inorganic-material technologies to semiconductor fabrication through silica fillers and wet-process materials rather than by presenting a semiconductor device product.
Capabilities and products
- spherical fine silica particles (SEAHOSTARTM KE)
- fillers for encapsulants, underfills, insulation films and prepreg
- semiconductor wet-process cleaning/etching/polishing material (SOFMATERTM)
- polymer solutions for semiconductor wet processes
- EPOCROS functional polymers for VOC countermeasures and water-based systems
- superabsorbent polymer mass-production technology